David Cameron says Britain is so much in debt that welfare benefits to the poorest and most vulnerable in society must be slashed to the bone, but there's still enough to wage foreign wars.

Senators yell about the cost of keeping the unemployed from going hungry, while at the same time shoving enough money to keep benefits going into the money pit of war.

David Cameron boasts that Britain has the world's fourth biggest military, at the same time as he is slashing public services to the bone.

AUDIO: Student Tom Wills pulls no punches in telling senior NATO advisor Jamie Shea why he's not welcome as a visiting lecturer at Sussex University.

VIDEO: The BBC's political editor, Nick Robinson, takes direct action against a placard which carried the slogan "Cut the War, Not the Poor".

Between now the next general election, the government will spend £20 billion on the futile Afghanistan war and £10 billion on maintaining the militarily pointless Trident missile system.

The Con-Lib government says there's no alternative to the biggest cuts in public expenditure in over a generation. But there is: cut the war in Afghanistan, scrap Trident, bring the troops home.

The US has spent $1 trillion in nine years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Imagine what could have been done instead.